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Sunday Night Theatre

Sunday Night Theatre

1950•3.5/10
Drama

Ratings

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3.5/10(2)

Sunday Night Theatre was a long-running series of televised live television plays screened by BBC Television from early 1950 until 1959. The productions for the first five years or so of the run were re-staged live the following Thursday, partly because of technical limitations in this era, and the theatrical basis of early television drama. Some of the earliest collaborations between Rudolph Cartier and Nigel Neale were produced for this series, including Arrow to the Heart and Nineteen Eighty-Four. The Sunday night drama slot was subsequently renamed The Sunday-Night Play which ran for four seasons between 1960 and 1963. ITV transmitted its own unrelated run of Sunday Night Theatre between 1971 and 1974.

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Language

EN

Status

Returning Series

First Aired

January 1, 1950

Last Aired

July 26, 1959

Networks

BBC One

Seasons & Episodes
Select a season to view episodes. Reddit links may contain spoilers.
Season
E1
Hindle Wakes
Air date: 1950-01-01
E2
Rope
Air date: 1950-01-08
Two young men strangle their "inferior" classmate, hide his body in their apartment, and invite his friends and family to a dinner party as a means to challenge the "perfection" of their crime.
E3
Twelfth Night
Air date: 1950-01-15
Viola and Sebastian are lookalike twins, separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself like her brother and goes into the service of the Duke Orsino. Orsino sends her to help him woo the Lady Olivia, who doesn't want the Duke, but finds that she likes the new messenger the Duke's sending. Then, of course, Viola's brother shows up, and merry hell breaks loose. Meanwhile, Olivia's uncle and his cohorts are trying to find some way to get back at Olivia's officious majordomo, Malvolio.
E4
Cheapside
Air date: 1950-01-22
E5
Trespass
Air date: 1950-01-29
E6
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Air date: 1950-02-05
A noblewoman discovers her husband is The Scarlet Pimpernel, a vigilante who rescues aristocrats from the blade of the guillotine.
E7
The Indifferent Shepherd
Air date: 1950-02-12
E10
The Seagull
Air date: 1950-03-05
This quintessential Chekhov drama--his first success--is both comic and tragic. A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man of the house, Konstantin, an aspiring writer who dreams of bringing new forms to the theatre.
E11
The Lady's Not for Burning
Air date: 1950-03-12
E16
Promise of Tomorrow
Air date: 1950-04-16
Marius Goring stars as Tommy Savidge, a crippled poet who longs to compose verse dramas but is forced to write trashy plays for dingy provincial repertory companies to make a living.
E17
Othello
Air date: 1950-04-23
E30
Dark Tribute
E31
Adventure Story
Air date: 1950-07-30
The story of Alexander the Great, a compulsive conqueror.
E33
The History of Mr. Polly
Air date: 1950-08-13
E36
Vanity Fair
Air date: 1950-09-03
E40
Party Manners
Air date: 1950-10-01
E48
The Secret Sharer
Air date: 1950-11-26
A ship's captain must conceal a stowaway from his crew.
E49
An Enemy of the People
Air date: 1950-12-03
A scientist stands against an entire town when he discovers their medicinal spa is polluted.

Cast

Oliver MacGreevy

Oliver MacGreevy

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